Ghana News Agency

Tuesday 18th April, 2017

By Mohammed Abdul
Rashid GNA
Accra, April 18,
GNA - Some Ghanaians have indicated that the 103 achievements of the government
in hundred days presented by Vice President Alhaji Dr Mohamadu Bawumia as
polices rather than achievements.
“Listening to the
Vice President as he presented the achievements, I saw them to rather be
polices towards achievements.”
Mr Mahmud Mohammed
a news vendor who

By Mohammed Abdul
Rashid GNA

Accra, April 18,
GNA - Some Ghanaians have indicated that the 103 achievements of the government
in hundred days presented by Vice President Alhaji Dr Mohamadu Bawumia as
polices rather than achievements.

“Listening to the
Vice President as he presented the achievements, I saw them to rather be
polices towards achievements.”

Mr Mahmud Mohammed
a news vendor who was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency
argued that, the 103 achievements as presented by the Vice President were
rather strategies that are been put in place to work towards achievements
rather than been achievements.

Mr Samuel Mathew, a
lotto Writer said the 100 days period was too insignificant for any government
to showcase what they have done and should rather tell Ghanaians things that
were in place to turn the economy around.

According to him,
Ghanaians had not “felt the effect of the said achievements” so he should “not
describe them as achievements but rather as policies.”

He indicated that,
the Abolition of the excise duty on petroleum products coupled with the
abolition of duties on the importation of spare parts, had not yet reflected in
the transport sector since there was an increased in the lorry fares just
recently.

A worker at the
Ministry of Roads and Highways, who spoke on anonymity, indicated that, though
every government had the right to describe “earmarking” as an achievement as
compared to “provisions being made”, the real achievement should be tangible to
the public.

The Vice President
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at a town hall meeting on Monday said government had
recorded at least one achievement a day since the Akufo-Addo-led administration
came into power on January 7, 2017 and has made 103 achievements within its
first 100 days in office.

Some of the
achievements he mentioned included;
taxes that were abolished in the budget such as; taxes on excise duty on
petroleum, levies imposed on ‘Kayayie’ and religious institutions by local
authorities, one per cent special import levy, 17.5 per cent VAT on domestic
airline, 17.5 per cent VAT financial services, 17.5 per cent VAT on selected
imported medicines that were not manufactured locally and five per cent on real
estates and the initiated process to abolish import duty on vehicle spare
parts.

Others were
reduction in national electrification levy from five to three per cent,
reduction in public lightning levy from five to two per cent, and reduction of
special petroleum tax rate among other taxes.